Widescreen (Finally) Winning

Yort writes "There's a little blurb over at the IMDB about customers at Blockbuster now generally preferring the widescreen, or letterbox, format over full-screen. This after Blockbuster tried to only stock full screen versions of movies a few years ago. I guess now the wife will have to let me buy that new widescreen TV, right?"

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Widescreen is a fad

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Every now and then, a dead end technology pops up, only to disappear in the mists of history.

As long as widescreen isn't filling the entire screen, beacuse it isn't, it will never conquer the home market. For cinemas it's an entirely different thing, of course.

Those who tout widescreen as the next big thing, might be interested in the fact that there is not yet a single consumer widescreen camcoder on the market. Coincidence?